Activation logic for testing consensus changes #16

[rajarshimaitra]

Session Details

• Date: 09-03-2023
• Time: IST 20:00 (UTC 14:30)
• PR: https://github.com/bitcoin-inquisition/bitcoin/pull/16
• Context: [bitcoin inquisition][consensus][soft forks]
• Difficulty: Moderate
• Language: [c++]
• Notes and Questions: https://bitcoincore.reviews/bitcoin-inquisition-16

Summary

Bitcoin Inquisition is a parallel fork of Bitcoin Core intended to perform experiments on controversial updates on Bitcoin in Signet. This PR outlines the soft fork mechanism on this client, which is much faster and fail-safe than experimenting on the dominant Bitcoin Core implementation.

Learnings

• Softfork activations.
• Testing out softforks.
• Different deployment methodologies and their merits and demerits.